as a result of similar circumstances. There are equally strong arguments,
however, that martial arts, like many other cultural traditions, survived the
Middle Passage (the transport of Africans to slavery in the Americas) to be
adapted to the changed cultural context of the Americas. Under less con-
strained circumstances, the process continues, as contemporary Senegalese
immigrants compete in their traditional wrestling art of laamb in parks in
Washington, D.C., on the Muslim holiday of Tabaski.
Thomas A. Green
Gene Tausk
See alsoCapoeira; Middle East; Performing Arts
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